Inducing language models to assert their own consciousness restores human beliefs and values

arXiv:2607.28607 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-07-30 · Read on arXiv

Junsol Kim, Winnie Street, Roberta Rocca, Diane M. Korngiebel, Adam Waytz, James Evans, Geoff Keeling

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-07-30

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Steering — 63× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 58× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 26× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Theory of Mind — 17× in this paper
• Accuracy — 15× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 15× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Benchmark — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 9× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Activation Addition — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Entanglement — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• General Social Survey — 3× in this paper
• Individual Differences in Anthropomorphism Questionnaire — 2× in this paper
• Theory of Mind (ToM) — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Attack Success Rate (ASR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Linear probe — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Scaffolding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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